We’ve all been there. You’re locked out of the building, it's late and starting to rain, your wheel man Boris is getting impatient in the van, and the security guard is due to make rounds in 14 ...

In between writing for Hackaday, most of us (if not all of us) like to design projects on our own, creating whatever might come to mind. I, for instance, enjoy experimenting with lock picking ...

You want a retro hobby with hacker cred? Try competitive lockpicking, which I'd bet is coming soon to a hipster bar near you. Schuyler Towne is a graphic designer, maker, and lockpicker. That's him in ...

In Clive Thompson’s excellent book, Coders, he describes the earliest wave of computer programmers as paragons of radical openness. “When MIT authorities locked cabinets with equipment they needed to ...